Making the a-arms "wider"...besides camber issues,, what other "gotchas" will I hit?? Options

[Mueller]

Trying to figure out if I can safely go 1" per side to make the front track the same as the rear....I currently have 1.25" thick spacers, so I could eliminate those which would be nice.

I figure not that big of a deal on the camber since that is easily fixed by opening up the top of the shock tower
(salvage title car, so no worries about "ruining it" (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif) )

For those that have installed turbo-tie rods, do you think there is enough adjustment to move the ends out an inch per side???

[J P Stein]

OK, here's the way I see the problem...no pics (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)
"Normal" positive scrub radius adds steering feed back to the steering wheel. Let's figure (WAG) .50 inches with a 5.5 inch wide 914 wheel. As the tire turns from straight ahead, it describes an arc of .5 radius. The center of forward motion comes from the rear wheels to the center of the ball joint......pushng the front wheels foreward. If the tire is turned
45 deg, the center of the tire is leading the ball joint by about .25 in.....easily overcome as there is little mechanical advantage.

My 10 inch wide tire/wheel sets the scrub radius to around 2.25 inches futher out ....all the offset is outboard..for a total
scrub radius of positive 2.75 inches. At 45 deg, that would mean the center of the tire is 1.37 inches foreward & an equal amount outboard of the balljoint.....the force is pushing into that causing the tire to skip sideways.
Granted, max lock is maybe 20 deg deflection. I used 45 to simplify the calcs and the actuals would be half that.
Then again, I could well be fulla shit (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif)
Either way, I'm getting that radius down to about 1.25 with my "new improved" set-up.....we'll see.